Secret Weapon Notes: Volume 7
- The week started off with the interesting, strangely intuitive and logical news (in that “duh, of course Apple was working on this” way) that a partnership between Apple and Research in Motion is possible. “Such a deal would have huge merit because each company lacks what the other provides. RIM wants a firm foothold in the consumer market and Apple doesn’t have a presence in the booming wireless data sector”
[Found via Slashdot]
- Holy Screenshots Batman!! In case you haven’t followed any of the news that has circulated around the blogosphere regarding Apple (which originated here), you can download a plugin that creates a 3-pane version of Apple Mail. Such a thing would be desirable for the Thunderbird or Mac Office/Entourage converts who grew accustomed to Entourage’s new 3-pane view.
- There’s a great tutorial on growing design elements in After Effects and Photoshop here.
- And on the note of After Effects, Photoshop, Flash, and FileMaker… there are times when you really feel like you are fighting against the virtual work environment that you’re using. If you want to see what that means literally, take a look here.
- Even though I mentioned this earlier in the week, I still find myself brainstorming with ideas thanks to the Vitamin post on managing email campaigns with HTML emails
- Thanks to UneasySilence, I’ve set up a box.net account to mount on my FileMaker server and upload a zipped copy of all the data into named folders. It’s a seriously easy way to add remote backup capabilities to a system.
- For the fellow database architects amongst us, there is a great article on SQL Injection Attacks By Example.
- If you’re itching like myself to take a gander and play around with Google Spreadsheets, you can (at least) do the former here.
- For those of your Macheads who would love to make your own cash-cow in the form of a third-person shooter a la Halo, see the Apple developer page on Mac-compatible game engines.
